%0 Journal Article %A Edwin D. Craun %D 2023 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J Mediaevistik %@ 2199-806X %N 1 %V 35 %T Arvind Thomas, and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xiv, 267 pp. %R 10.3726/med.2022.01.111 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1393408 %X As the law and literature movement in law schools reminded us several decades ago and Hans-Georg Gadamer before that, law and literature share much cultural work in common: they tackle some of the same communal problems; they interpret and revise norms for conduct; they evaluate written sources; they weigh what constitutes authority; and they both use and invite similar hermeneutical methods. This is especially so with medieval canon law and